Rosalie Favell

Tuesday April 2nd, 2013 to
Sunday May 5th, 2013

Rosalie Favell draws creative inspiration from her
family roots as well as from her Metis, Cree and English heritage. This photo-based artist
from Winnipeg, Manitoba uses everything from photo albums to pop culture to
present a complex self-portrait of her experiences as a contemporary Aboriginal
woman.

Rosalie's artwork has been collected and acquired by numerous prestigious
institutions including the National Gallery of Canada and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, both
in Ottawa, the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Washington,
D.C., and Rockwell Museum of Western Art in Corning, New York. Her work
has been widely exhibited in Canada, the U.S., Edinburgh, Scotland, Paris,
France, and Taipei, Taiwan.

Favell has also been internationally recognized
with a number of grants including the Chalmers Fellowship, the Victor Martyn
Lynch-Staunten award and the 2012 Karsh Award. A graduate of Ryerson
Polytechnic Institute, Favell also holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the
University of New Mexico. She has studied and taught extensively at the
post-graduate level. Favell continues to work with grassroots organizations in
Winnipeg, Inuit educational groups in Ottawa and Nepalese women’s groups in
Katmandu. There will be an artists talk and Question and answer session on Sunday afternoon April 21st, at 4:00pm.

For a recent article in the National Gallery Magazine that features Rosalie: click here.